** Reply to message from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:53:32 -0400
If Mozilla.org's Bugzilla is any guide, Israel is the most M$-biased country in the world: http://tinyurl.com/7brb4
This is true. That is exactly how it comes about that the ISP "knows" beforehand that I am running Windows (what else is there?), and why the telco rep "knows" for a fact that every computer has Windows. My health insurer has a website on which patients can find the results of laboratory tests from the comfort of their own keyboards. I can't, because the website uses MS "enhancements" that make it impossible to navigate except with Intenet Explorer. Complaints to the insurer elicit the reply that they know this, but no changes will be made because virtually all the patients run Windows (I don't even know anybody here that runs any Mac system). I explained to my doctor only last week that I would be unable to get my lab results from the site, so he should do it from his terminal. This got me a lecture on why the majority operatting system governs, as it should; and that this is called "democracy". There is a Hebrew website like Mapquest, but specializing in maps of this country (Mapquest is deficient for Israel). I can't use it, because it functions only with IE. Yet the owners must surely be interested in maximum public access. But "maximum public access" here is compatible with "IE-limited access". Why is this so here? I have no idea. MS has a large software foundry here, in Haifa; maybe they have an enormous budget for taking local webmasters to lunch and giving them free lessons on how to make websites without even touching the HTML standards. But it's appalling. Felix.... Why do you get me started?x -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, while dishwashing detergent is made with real lemons?